Our reasons for coding with PHP
Author: Justin Munro
PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor and is a server-side programming language.
There are many reasons we use PHP for our web development, firstly it is a free language with no licensing fees so the cost of using it is minimal.
A good benefit of using PHP is that it can interact with many different database languages including MySQL. We work with MySQL at Bluelinemedia since this is also a free language so it makes sense to use PHP. Both PHP and MySQL are compatible with an Apache server which is also free to license. PHP runs on Windows, Linux and Unix servers.
Due to all these languages being free it is cheap and easy to setup and create a website using PHP.
PHP also has very good online documentation with a good framework of functions in place. This makes the language relatively easy to learn and very well supported online. There are countless forums and tutorials on various PHP methods and problems so it is usually very easy to find help if you need it.
Due to PHP being so accessible and cheap to setup there are a lot of people who know how to use the language which makes finding new employees proficient in this language less challenging.
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